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A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using bubblegum? The energy comes from walking that line and watching things dip this way and that.

~Dan Colen

Topics: About Abstract Dip Energy Line Lot Painting Pictorial Things Using Walking Watching Way Work

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It's such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you don't want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside.

~Dan Colen

Topics: Accepted Against Also Bourgeois Come Fame Going Grain Inside Outside Paradox Place Successful Want Where You

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The different bodies of my work end themselves when there's no more discovery to be had.

~Dan Colen

Topics: Bodies Different Discovery End Had More Themselves Work

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I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers beyond what the eye can see.

~Dan Colen

Topics: Beyond Energies Eye Like Objects Powers See Spiritual Think I Think

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I've always been interested in moments of disbelief... I don't know if they possess any magic, but they do have something.

~Dan Colen

Topics: Always Any Been Disbelief Interested Know Magic Moments Possess Something

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A lot of my work is about equalizing things and kind of destroying any barrier between what's high and low, or what's deep or what's shallow, complex or simple. I hope I'm ever-changing.

~Dan Colen

Topics: About Any Barrier Between Complex Deep Destroying High Hope Kind Lot Low Shallow Simple Things Work

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It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.

~Dan Colen

Topics: Family Friends Help Lot Make Me Nature Takes

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As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I really want to allow the oil paint to perform, to show me the things that it wants to do, beyond my imagination.

~Dan Colen

Topics: Allow Beyond Brushes Confidence Image Imagination Me Much Myself Oil Opposed Paint Perform Putting Really Scene Set Show Things Too Too Much Want Wants

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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.

~Dan Colen

Topics: Day End End Of The Day Hope Miracle Vision Where You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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